A Legislature's Duty

Updated Dec. 4, 2000 12:39 a.m. ET

By John Yoo. Mr. Yoo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, testified before the Florida Legislature last week.

"W ithout the intervention of the State Legislatures, the President of the United States cannot be elected at all," explained James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 45. "They must in all cases have a great share in his appointment, and will perhaps in most cases of...